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A scandant shrub, the branches and branchlets pale when 

 dry, distinctly about 9-angled, sulcate, sparingly armed with 

 widely scattered, short, straight, rather stout spines that do 

 not exceed 2 mm in length. Leaves firmly chartaceous to sub- 

 coriaceous, subolivaceous when dry, prominently shining on 

 both surfaces, oblong-ovate to oblong-elliptic, 8 to 16 cm long, 

 3.5 to 10 cm wide, all with a stout apiculate-acuminate apex, 

 the smaller ones rounded at the base, the larger ones prominently 

 cordate, 5- or 7-nerved, the inner pair of nerves much stouter 

 than the outer ones, reaching the apex, the reticulations rather 

 lax, prominent ; petioles 1 to 2 cm long, the lower part somewhat 

 sheathing, the tendrils attaining a length of about 10 cm. Um- 

 bels axillary, solitary, their peduncles 2.5 to 3 cm long, the 

 pedicels in fruit 1.5 to 2 cm long. Fruits globose, numerous, 

 nearly black when dry, somewhat wrinkled, prominently shining, 

 8 to 10 mm in diameter ; seeds usually 3. 



Luzon, Tayabas Province, vicinity of Dingalan, on the Pacific coast, 

 Bur. Sci. 26611 Ramos & Edano, August 27, 1916, on dry slopes at medium 

 altitudes. 



A species well characterized by its inflorescences being reduced to a 

 simple umbel. In vegetative characters it somewhat resembles SMILAX 

 ELMERI nom. nov. {Smilax reticulata Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 8 (1815) 

 2740, non Desv., nee Heer), but Smilax elmeri has racemosely arranged 

 umbels, and its leaves are acute at the base. 



PIPERACEAE 



ZIPPELIA Blume 



ZIPPELIA BEGONIAEFOLIA Blume in Roem. & Schultes Syst. 7 (1830) 

 1G14, 1651. 

 Zippelia lappacea Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. (1838) 76, t. 16. 

 Piper zippelia C. DC. Prodr. 16^ (1869) 256. 

 JOLO, Mrs. Clemens 9335, October 15, 1915, in damp forests, altitude 

 about 600 meters. 



This monotypic genus is new to the Philippines. Indo-China, Mekong 

 River, Thorel, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Java. 



FAGACEAE 



QUERCUS Linnaeus 

 QUERCUS CAGAYANENSIS sp. nov. § Cyclobalanus. 



Arbor circiter 12 m alta, partibus junioribus densissime 

 f errugineo-pubescentibus ; foliis oblongo-ovatis ad ovato-lanceo- 

 latis, integris, coriaceis, usque ad 15 cm longis, basi acutis, 

 apice caudato-acuminatis, supra costa exceptis glabra, nitidis, 

 subtus pallidioribus, ad costa nervisque pubescentibus, nervis 

 utrinque 7 ad 9, subtus prominentibus, curvato-adscendentibus, 



